Head of Fabrication

Head Of Fabrication

Slip Robotics is a B2B Robotics-as-a-Service company deploying autonomous loading and unloading robots SlipBots and SlipLifts at warehouse and fulfillment sites across North America. Our customers are some of the largest shippers and 3PLs in the industry, and we're scaling fast. We build the robots, we deploy them, and we keep them running.

The Role

We are now building the operational foundation to support the next stage of growth. Fabrication sits at the center of that foundation. We are hiring our first Head of Fabrication to build the function from the ground up.

This is a builder's role. You will not inherit a mature operation you will create one. You'll define the strategy, stand up the processes, hire the team, spec the capital equipment, and set the standards that every future Slip robot will be built against. You'll be the person the organization looks to when the question is "how do we actually make this, at cost, at quality, at volume?"

If you are energized by the prospect of owning a function end-to-end in a high-growth robotics company and you've done something like this before we should talk.

What You'll Own

• Fabrication strategy. Set the long-term direction for in-house vs. outsourced fabrication. Own the make-vs-buy call on every fabricated component in the SlipBot and SlipLift BOM.
• The shop floor. Welding, cutting, machining, forming, and finishing. Layout, workflow, tooling, fixturing, and throughput.
• The team. Hire, develop, and lead fabricators, welders, machinists, and shop leadership. Build the culture and the standards.
• Unit cost on fabricated assemblies. Partner with Engineering on design for manufacturability. Drive measurable, sustained reductions in BOM cost through process improvement, supplier leverage, and design partnership.
• Capital equipment planning. Build the investment roadmap what we buy, when we buy it, and what ROI we expect.
• Capacity and throughput. Translate the production forecast into a capacity plan. Identify bottlenecks before they become constraints.
• Quality of fabricated output. Partner with the Quality team on inspection standards, first-article processes, and continuous improvement.
• Safety. Own the safety program for the fabrication floor.
• Process and documentation. Build the SOPs, work instructions, and training programs that let the shop scale without losing consistency.